Yes, it’s the anniversary of D-Day. That is true.
It’s also the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Midway. I know Wikipedia says it ended on the 7th. But Hammann was torpedoed with the loss of 80 lives on the 6th. That Yorktown sank on the 7th is immaterial; the last shot related to the battle was fired on the 6th.
And, perhaps less important in the grand scheme of things, it’s my blogiversary. 14 years writing this crap. I might do it one more year and say to hell with it. Nobody reads blogs anymore; everybody’s on SpaceBook, where the low-content, poorly-spelled, and ungrammatical message is the medium and Big Brotherberg controls what you see.
The Internet was a wonderful thing, once….